CARY, N.C. -- My trip to North Carolina to see the U.S. collegiate national team play the Cuban national team for two games was mostly built around one man -- NC State lefty Carlos Rodon, the heavy favorite to be the first overall pick in next year's Rule 4 draft. Rodon threw on Tuesday night and more than lived up to expectations.

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Keith Law

Keith Law joined ESPN.com in June 2006 as the lead baseball analyst for Scouts Inc., covering the majors, minors and amateurs. Before joining ESPN, Law spent 4½ years with the Toronto Blue Jays as a special assistant to the general manager, and was previously a writer for Baseball Prospectus. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon.